Los Angeles County is expected to receive more than $630 million to clean up homes that contain lead-based paint. The California Superior Court has ordered companies Sherwin Williams, National Lead and ConAgra to pay $1.15 billion into a fund to remove lead paint from homes in various […]
Read more →Pressing ahead with the Slauson Corridor Revitalization Project, business owners on the south side of Slauson Avenue between Overhill Drive and Angeles Vista have agreed to a brand new uniform façade look, with shared heights, color schemes of lime green, gray and beige and the same type […]
Read more →The Rocket Gas and Cleaners in Lynwood had been closed for two decades creating a toxic soup of leaky underground gas tanks and dry cleaning chemicals leaching into the soil. For the past 15 years, the city had been after the property owners to get them to […]
Read more →Residents of the Second District will soon be seeing green. Nearly 3,500 trees will be planted in neighborhoods throughout the Second District as part of a $750,000-grant program sponsored by Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chairman Mark Ridley-Thomas. Culver City, Mar Vista, Inglewood, Hawthorne, South Los […]
Read more →It was a moment of reflection for families, elected officials and many others as they bowed their heads in silence at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, remembering that awful day, December 14, 1963 when the old Baldwin Hills Reservoir collapsed. More than 280 million gallons of water […]
Read more →Dozens of children will play baseball in style at the new Campanella Park Dream Field, which was recently inaugurated. Campanella Park, in the community of Rosewood just east of the Harbor Freeway, has been in need of a new field for a while. This public-private partnership […]
Read more →An eight-mile stretch of unsightly, unkempt and unused railway in South Los Angeles is poised for a wonderful transformation into a greenbelt with walkways and bike lanes. The 8.3-mile right-of-way, which generally parallels Slauson Avenue, is being studied for key upgrades by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Dubbed […]
Read more →Ranger Collin O’Mara–Green led a group of fourth graders through a windy path along the newly built Compton Creek Natural Park at George Washington elementary school and pointed at a dark green sage plant. “Now I want you to touch the leaves and smell your fingers,” said […]
Read more →The residents of View Park, Windsor Hills and Ladera Heights, have long wanted to give the Slauson corridor, which runs from Angeles Vista Boulevard to La Brea Avenue, a facelift that would make it as appealing as the neighborhoods surrounding the thoroughfare. To that end, Los Angeles […]
Read more →By a unanimous vote and after a four-hour public hearing, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors rejected the City of Whittier’s proposal to allow gas and oil exploration in the Whittier Hills, maintaining that the land should be used only for open public space. In 1992 […]
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